Handling Missing Data in Inputs

Missing data can be very annoying to a programmer. In fact, it is so annoying that very often we'll write separate programs to clean up data and eliminate unpleasant conditions so that the main program doesn't have to deal with it. Here, I'll show some examples of the kind of problems we see.

Unix for Higher Education

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Amazon’s Third Quarter Results

Operating cash flow was $490 million for the trailing twelve months, compared with $284 million for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2003. Free cash flow grew 76% to $420 million for the trailing twelve months, compared with $239 million for the 2003 period.